The framework-res.apk has a lot of files it depends on outside the app that all reside in the /system/framework/ folder.
I would try copying the rest of them if u just want his framework and not the rest of the rom.
As always, do a nandroid backup first

After pulling the current framework-res.apk off of the phone and opening it up, i quickly flipped over all of the jog tabs in the landscape folder in paint, to check if this would actually work. Pushed it back onto the phone and...

I'll probably just end up swapping the names of all of the left and right tabs, so that I don't have to deal with the transparency issues.

One last issue is when the animation is running upon unlock, the tabs flip back to their orignal (incorrect) positions. Ideas?